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Come dos 6 there were menu options in config.sys you could use to load different parts of your hardware depending on what you wanted, they also could do differe
by iso1631 4y ago
Come dos 6 there were menu options in config.sys you could use to load different parts of your hardware depending on what you wanted, they also could do different things in autoexec.bat too. Before that you could just have different boot floppies.
My memory had himem.sys as a config.sys option though, with various numbers you could pass to it. EMM386 was another one too.
It was tricky to work out what you could do - a lot of trial and error, this was in the pre-internet time (at least for the typical home user), so things tended to come from hints in magazines.
- rchaud 4y agoWow, I remember this! As a kid, I remember taking my computer to an IT shop asking how to run a copy of Ultima VI on my Pentium II MMX PC. The tech there had it for a week, and they figured it out by setting up autoexec.bat so that I had to allow/disallow some processes from booting one by one. Apparently one of those tricks was reducing the amount of available memory, or something like that. That was the hack that got U6 to boot and be playable at a normal speed. This would have been in 1998 or so, so my memories of the exact fix are pretty faint.